Botany and Ormiston Times : Botany and Ormiston Times Thursday January 21 2016

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Botany couple Louise and
Darren have gone to Nashville
USA with the hope that they
will return to New Zealand
with the beginnings of a
family.
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I BY FARIDA MASTER
Northpark residents Harish Sharma
and his wife Meher weren’t prepared
for what they discovered in their fruit
juice box.
Whilst pouring a second glass
of juice they noticed something
suspiciously clunky inside the Just
Juice tetrapak carton.
To be on the safe side, they cut it
open.
The Sharmas were shocked to find a
big block of green-blue coloured slimy
slush staring back at them.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when
I saw it sitting at the bottom of the
carton,” says Mr Sharma, team leader
with wholesale tool supplier Fox &
Gunn.
The couple shot a video of the
sludge which they poured into a plate
and posted on Facebook.
The juice has not passed the use-by
date.
The couple called the manufacturer
Frucor after finding the dangerous-
looking remnants in their drink.
They were informed that it was
holiday period and someone would
look into the matter and return their
call. But nothing has happened.
They followed it up with another call.
“ The person on the other side of the
line was quite rude,” says Mr Sharma.
Finally, one of their work colleagues
posted the video on the Just Juice
Facebook page.
SPOILAGE
Just
revolting!
The historic Gillard farm house in Flat Bush will make way for 21st century subdivision.
Times photo Wayne Martin
Heritage house to go
I BY MARIANNE KELLY
Auckland Council has
approved consent for
bulk earthworks on the
privately-owned site where
Gillard House sits at 39 Flat Bush
School Road. Removal of the
house is a permitted activity and
subdivision consent has been
lodged with the council.
So far no decision has been
made about the application, a
council spokesperson says.
Howick historian Alan La
Roche says the Gillard farm
house has been in poor
condition for several years.
It was built by John and
Susannah Gillard who came from
England in 1864 on the sailing
ship “Bombay” with settlers
for the Waikato Immigration
Scheme. They arrived on March
18, 1865.
After working in the Drury
area for four years, they bought
the land on the corner of Flat
Bush School and Chapel Roads.
The farm house was built
in 1869 and they raised eight
children, Jane, Mary, John,
William, Arthur, Charles, Tom and
Emily. The Flat Bush property
was farmed by the Gillard family
until 1966.
A Flat Bush Built Heritage
Review was written in 2010 by
Reynolds & Associates for the
then Manukau City Council.
Gillard House was one of the
existing identified built heritage
features in the council’s District
Plan which were reviewed to
confirm whether their continued
protection was warranted.
The report concluded that
significant alterations to the
house, particularly to the joinery
and interior plan, had occurred
since it was built and the loss of
historic fabric that had resulted
from those alterations had
diminished its cultural heritage
value.
Consequently the
recommendation was that
the house not be scheduled
for protection in the Manukau
District Plan.
® The Gillard story can be found
in Jennifer Clark’s book East
Tamaki.
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One of the last farm houses left in the Flat Bush-East Tamaki area is set
to be demolished
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